Differential visibility of treponemal disease in pre-Columbian stratified societies: does rank matter?

abstract：:The study of tooth wear among prehistoric and recent populations has frequently been concerned with the rate and pattern of wear over the dental arches. In this report we considered the question of tooth wear variation among collections of Australian Aboriginal crania recovered from several sites along the Murray Rive...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Molnar S,Richards L,McKee J,Molnar I

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New data were obtained on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Guahibo from Venezuela, a group so far not studied using molecular data. A population sample (n = 59) was analyzed for mtDNA variation in two control-region hypervariable segments (HV1 and HV2) by sequencing. The presence or absence of a 9-bp polymorphism in the...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Vona G,Falchi A,Moral P,Calò CM,Varesi L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Callitrichids use their tongue in various social, ecological, and hygienic contexts. Using a noninvasive measuring device, we obtained data on the operational tongue length (OTL) in seven species from the family Callitrichidae. OTL (defined as the maximum tongue extension into the device) varied significantly between ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Heymann EW,von der Lage F

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to provide skin color data on several endogamous groups of eastern Nepal and to demonstrate genetic microdifferentiation in skin color. Skin reflectance measures were taken at the upper inner arm and forehead sites, using the British DSL Model 99 Reflectance Spectrophotometer fitted with b...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Williams-Blangero S,Blangero J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short-statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especiall...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Formicola V,Frayer DW,Heller JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Human language represents an extreme form of communicative complexity. Primate facial display complexity, which depends upon facial mobility, can be used as a model for the study of the evolution of communicative complexity. The gelada (Theropithecus gelada) is the only primate that can produce a lip-flip ev...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Lazow SP,Bergman TJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of disparity between the lengths of the radii and ulnae of 177 Negro female skeletons of the Terry Collection was questioned. An error was found and corrections have been made in the relevant statistics and tables. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Trotter M,Gleser GC

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of changes in nutritional and health status upon bone and enamel development are examined in a sample of 63 rural Guatemalan children (24 females, 39 males). The number of ossified hand-wrist centers at 3 years and the number of linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH) in approximately 0-3 year zones of developing ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： May RL,Goodman AH,Meindl RS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1930s subadult hominin remains and Mousterian artifacts were discovered in the Teshik-Tash cave in South Uzbekistan. Since then, the majority of the scientific community has interpreted Teshik-Tash as a Neanderthal. However, some have considered aspects of the morphology of the Teshik-Tash skull to be more simi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gunz P,Bulygina E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs) may have lived in close proximity in the Near East region during Middle Paleolithic times. Although functional morphological analyses suggest a marked behavioral contrast between these two human groups, new dental micro- and macro-wear studies, together with new archa...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Fiorenza L,Kullmer O

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomical effects of artificial cranial deformation on the face and the base have been subject to various metric approaches, including standard linear as well as finite element techniques, and have produced controversial results (Antón [1989] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 79:253-267; Kohn et al. [1993] Am. J. Phys. Ant...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Friess M,Baylac M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adventus Saxonum is a crucial event in English protohistory. Scholars from a range of disciplines dispute the scale and demographic profile of the purported colonizing population. The 5th-7th century burial ground at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, is one of the few Anglian cemeteries where an associated settleme...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Montgomery J,Evans JA,Powlesland D,Roberts CA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Miles system of ageing, based upon analysis of the rate of molar wear, was evaluated using the available dental sample from Tepe Hissar, Iran. The independently estimated ages for the mandibles and maxillae of the same individuals were found to be highly correlated (r = 0.87, p less than 0.001). Ages of a subsampl...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Nowell GW

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovery of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization (Oxus civilization) centered on the oases of Central Asia revealed the presence of large, preplanned urban centers immediately above sterile soil. Given the absence of local antecedents, the sudden appearance and proliferation of these Oxus civilization urban c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hemphill BE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pursuant to his major research interest in the cultural ecology of hunter-gatherers, Birdsell collected an unparalleled body of phenotypic data on Aboriginal Australians during the mid twentieth century. Birdsell did not explicitly relate the geographic patterning in his data to Australia's climatic variation, instead...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gilligan I,Bulbeck D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neo-darwinian and population genetics theory assumes that the necessary and sufficient set of conditions for all genetic, therefore evolutionary, change has been identified. Punctuationalists have assumed the opposite and cite the fossil record as evidence for change too rapid to be explained in neo-darwinian theory. ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Williams BJ

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whether earlier age at menarche is associated with higher body mass index (BMI) because they share a common genetic underpinning. We investigated the impact of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influencing menarche timing on peripubertal BMI. For 556 Fels Longitudinal Study children (277 boys/279 gi...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Johnson W,Choh AC,Curran JE,Czerwinski SA,Bellis C,Dyer TD,Blangero J,Towne B,Demerath EW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sexual dimorphism is an important biological factor underlying morphological variation in the human skeleton. Previous research found sex-related differences in the static ribcage, with males having more horizontally oriented ribs and a wider lower ribcage than females. Furthermore, a recent study found sex-...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： García-Martínez D,Bastir M,Torres-Tamayo N,O'Higgins P,Torres-Sánchez I,García-Río F,Heuzé Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The use of dental metrics in phylogenetic reconstructions of fossil primates assumes variation in tooth size is highly heritable. Quantitative genetic studies in humans and baboons have estimated high heritabilities for dental traits, providing a preliminary view of the variability of dental trait heritabili...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hardin AM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geographic information systems (GIS) software is typically used for analyzing geographically distributed data, allowing users to annotate points or areas on a map and attach data for spatial analyses. While traditional GIS-based research involves geo-referenced data (points tied to geographic locations), the use of th...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Rose DC,Agnew AM,Gocha TP,Stout SD,Field JS

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6 million French-Canadians of Québec derive from a relatively small number of founders. Consequently, some hereditary diseases, which may or may not present a worldwide distribution, have been detected in high frequency in this population. Several studies, however, indicate a nonuniform distribution of these disea...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Gagnon A,Heyer E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of decrease of mean metacarpal cortical width was assessed by sequential radiographic morphometry for each hand separately in a series of 46 right-handed postmenopausal women observed for 222 patient-years. For the left hand, the mean rate was 0.0331 +/- 0.0053 mm/year and for the right, 0.0310 +/- 0.0060 mm/...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Horsman A,Simpson M,Armes F

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cuncaicha, a rockshelter site in the southern Peruvian Andes, has yielded archaeological evidence for human occupation at high elevation (4,480 masl) during the Terminal Pleistocene (12,500-11,200 cal BP), Early Holocene (9,500-9,000 cal BP), and later periods. One of the excavated human burials (Feature 15-...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Karakostis FA,Reyes-Centeno H,Franken M,Hotz G,Rademaker K,Harvati K

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now known that several population movements have taken place at different times throughout southern Arabian prehistory. One of the principal questions under debate is if the Early Holocene peopling of southern Arabia was mainly due to input from the Levant during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, to the expansion of ...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Al-Abri A,Podgorná E,Rose JI,Pereira L,Mulligan CJ,Silva NM,Bayoumi R,Soares P,Cerný V

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been thought that the prefrontal cerebral cortex has been greatly expanded in the human brain. Semendeferi et al. ([2001] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 114:224-241) showed that Brodmann's area 10 is relatively larger in the human compared to pongid brains. The question is: how much larger relatively is it? Using...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Holloway RL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing human from non-human bone fragments is usually accomplished by observation of gross morphology. When macroscopic analysis is insufficient, histological approaches can be applied. Microscopic features, like plexiform bone or osteon banding, are characteristic of non-humans. In the absence of such feature...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Dominguez VM,Crowder CM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanical features of cortical bone and their changes with growth and adaptation to function plays an important role in our ability to interpret the morphology and evolution of craniofacial skeletons. We assessed the elastic properties of cortical bone of juvenile and adult baboon mandibles using ul...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Wang Q,Ashley DW,Dechow PC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive histories of women aged 45-70 years from a homogeneous Berber population of South Morocco were sampled from three contrasting environments: a small town (n = 75), villages in the lowlands (n = 217), and villages in the highlands (n = 128). The main reproductive variables oppose the relatively better c...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Crognier E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of new examination of ancient DNA and craniometric analyses, Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe has been recently explained as reflecting colonization or at least a major influx of near eastern farmers. Given the fact that Neolithic dispersal in Central Europe was very rapid and extended into a large a...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Galeta P,Sládek V,Sosna D,Bruzek J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In various environments where primates are presently observed, as well as in forests and savannas which have been inhabited by australopithecines and early hominids, there are (or there have been presumably) categories of substances eliciting taste signals associated with stereotyped responses. Such is the case for va...

journal_title：American journal of physical anthropology

authors： Hladik CM,Pasquet P,Simmen B

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00